odeum

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A small building of ancient Greece and Rome used for public performances of music and poetry.

n. A contemporary theater or concert hall.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Alternative form of odeon.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. See odeon.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In anc. Gr. arch., one of a class of buildings akin to theaters, designed primarily for the public performance of musical contests of various kinds.

n. Hence At the present day, a name sometimes given to a theater, or to a hall or other structure devoted to musical or dramatic representations.

Etymologies

Latin ōdēum, from Greek ōideion, from aoidē, ōidē, song; see ode.

(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

Their work has produced, however, extraordinary discoveries, including a marble odeum, or small theater, of Roman Imperial date and a contemporary bath complex, both of which have no parallels at any other site in Egypt.

A councillor then proposed that the convent of St. Cecilia, or the now deserted and dilapidated odeum should be given up to them; but Horapollo objected explaining very clearly that such a crowd of sick in the midst of the city would be highly dangerous to the healthy citizens.

a gallery or loft of wood or stone, existing as early as the eleventh century and used, instead of the cancelli, to separate the choir from the nave; it was called the lectorium, or odeum, as the loft where the singers were, and doxale from the singing of the doxologies.

“The rain, which had already grown fitful, did not truly cease; but for a very short time the light of the waning moon (high overhead and, though hardly more than half full, very bright) fell upon the giant's courtyard just as the light from one of the largest luminaries in the odeum in the oneiric level of the House Absolute used to fall upon the stage.”—Gene Wolfe, The Sword of the Lictor